How to Deploy Your React App in 5 Minutes with Choreo

Kavishka Fernando — Fri, 30 May 2025 10:39:20 +0000

Building a React app is fast—deploying it should be too. Whether you're testing a prototype or launching a production app, Choreo simplifies the process of getting your React app live with built-in CI/CD, infrastructure abstraction, and a powerful developer console.

In this guide, I’ll show you how to deploy a Hotel Booking React app using Choreo in just five minutes—no Docker, no YAML. Just code, connect, and deploy. The sample app lets you search for rooms based on type, number of guests, price, room size, and additional filters like breakfast included or pet-friendly.

What is Choreo?

Choreo is an AI-native Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that simplifies the development, deployment, and management of cloud-native applications. It abstracts away infrastructure complexity so developers can focus on writing code. Choreo supports your entire app lifecycle—from code to production.

Why Use Choreo to Deploy Your React App?

Fast Setup: Choreo’s React Buildpack handles builds and dependencies—no manual configuration needed.
One-Click Deployments: Deploy in minutes, not hours.
Effortless Backend Integration: Connect securely to backend APIs.
Built-in Auth: Easily integrate OAuth2/OIDC for secure authentication.
Simple DB Provisioning: Set up and manage databases quickly.
Real-Time Monitoring: Get insights into performance, errors, and app behavior.

Pre-requisites

1) Choreo user account.
2) Fork this sample repository.

Deploy Your App

1) Sign up or login to Choreo.

2) Select the Developer persona and click Next.

3) A default project will be created for you. If you require to create a new project you can do so by navigating to the organization view and click the +Create Project button.

A project in Choreo is a logical group of related components that typically represent a single cloud native application. A project consists of one or more components.

Let's go ahead with the default project.

4) We will now create a Web Application component.

In Choreo, a component within your project signifies a singular unit of work in a cloud-native application. This can take the form of a microservice, API, web application, or job/task. Each component is linked to a specific directory path in a Git repository, housing the source code for the program.

i) Click the Web Application card.

ii) The next step is to connect the Github repository. Click Authorize with GitHub to connect Choreo to your GitHub account. If you haven't connected your GitHub repository to Choreo, enter your credentials and select the repository you forked earlier to install the Choreo GitHub App.

iii) Provide the following details
Organization: (your GitHub account)
Repository: React-Project-Hotel-Room-Booking
Branch: main
Project Directory : Click Edit and select the react-beach-resort-dev directory
Display Name: Hotel Booking
Buil Preset: React
Build Command: npm run build
Build Path: /build
Node Version: 16.8.0

iv) Click Create and Deploy. This will create your web application component and automatically build and deploy it as well.

5) You will be directed to the component overview page which will show you the status of your component. Once your component is successfully build and deployed you will see the following view.

6) Click on the Web App URL to tryout and see if your app is working as expected.

If your app is working as expected you can now promote it to the development environment.

7) Navigate to the Deploy tab and click on the Promote button in the Development card.

i) Select the Use Development configurations option and click Next.

ii) Click Next in the configurations tab since we dont have any configurations and finally click Promote.

8) Your have successfully promoted your web app to the production environment. Click the Web App URL to view your web app.

You have successfully deployed a React web application effortlessly with Choreo with just a few clicks!

Choreo: A Dev-Friendly Platform That Lets You Focus on Code, Not Infra

Kavishka Fernando — Thu, 22 May 2025 07:06:44 +0000

Let’s be real - as developers, we didn’t sign up to spend hours writing YAML, setting up pipelines, and debugging why a container won’t deploy. We just want to build stuff and get it running.

That’s why I started using Choreo and honestly, it’s the closest thing I’ve found to a platform that “just works” without getting in my way.

What Is Choreo?

Choreo is an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that helps you go from code to production without managing Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, or wiring up monitoring tools. It handles all the heavy lifting so you can focus on writing code.

Why It Clicked for Me as a Dev

1. Git-Connected from the Start
You hook up your GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repo, and Choreo builds and deploys your code automatically. You don’t need to configure CI/CD — it’s there by default.

2. Works with Your Stack
You can deploy a Node.js service, a Python app, a Java backend, or even a Docker image. It’s polyglot and doesn't force you into any specific tech.

3. Auto-Provisioned Environments
You get Dev and Prod environments by default, and you can easily add and manage more with just a few clicks. No Kubernetes knowledge needed.

4. Built-In Observability
Every service you deploy comes with logs, metrics, and tracing out of the box. No need to set up Prometheus, Grafana, or anything else.

5. Secure by Default
Choreo follows a Zero Trust architecture. Role-based access control (RBAC), secret management, and secure ingress come built-in. You focus on building and Choreo handles security.

6.API Management Built In
If you’re building APIs, Choreo makes it extreme simple to expose them, secure them, and even throttle them — all without needing a separate API Gateway or config files.

What I Use It For

I’ve used Choreo to:

Build and expose RESTful APIs
Run background tasks and schedulers
Host web apps
Build and run event-driven integrations

And it didn’t require a DevOps team or days of setup.

TL;DR

If you want to focus on building and not managing infra, Choreo is worth a look. It gives you all the tools you need such as CI/CD, environments, observability, API gateway, security -without you having to set it all up yourself.

And yeah, it’s free to try: choreo.dev

Let me know if you give it a shot — happy to share tips or help if you get stuck.

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